<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
    <head>
        <title>CSS Test: Empty cells set to 'hide' are transparent down to the table background</title>
        <link rel="author" title="Microsoft" href="http://www.microsoft.com/" />
        <link rel="help" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/tables.html#table-layers" />
        <meta name="assert" content="If 'empty-cells' is set to 'hide', empty cells are transparent all the way down to the table background, (example from spec section 17.5.1)." />
        <style type="text/css">
            table
            {
                background: #ff0;
                border: solid black;
                empty-cells: hide;
            }
            tr.top
            {
                background: orange;
            }
            td
            {
                border: 2px solid black;
            }
        </style>
    </head>
    <body>
        <p>Test passes if the table below has two rows of cells with black borders, cell '2' spans both rows, and cells '1', '2', '3', '4' have a orange background. There cannot be any visible cells below cells '3' or '4'.</p>
        <table>
            <tr class="top">
                <td> 1</td>
                <td rowspan="2"> 2</td>
                <td> 3</td>
                <td> 4</td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
                <td> 5</td>
                <td></td>
            </tr>
        </table>
  </body>
</html>